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SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles

By · Via TechCrunch · Published by Everything Blog

In short

SuperMe creates digital replicas of real-world professionals using information pulled from both public channels and private workplace productivity tools. Users can direct questions to specific personas or initiate group discussions among multiple relevant profiles to receive tailored business guidance. Although the service is currently offered at no cost, the startup intends to implement question limits, monetize additional queries, and compensate participating experts.

Key points

  • The startup safeguards confidential details by ensuring private data and trade secrets do…: The startup safeguards confidential details by ensuring private data and trade secrets do not appear in generated answers.
  • Monetization plans involve placing caps on free queries while exploring financial incenti…: Monetization plans involve placing caps on free queries while exploring financial incentives for experts providing knowledge.
  • Support for the Model Context Protocol allows users to query expert profiles through thir…: Support for the Model Context Protocol allows users to query expert profiles through third-party tools like ChatGPT and Claude.

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When people have career or job questions, they usually tap into their network to find experts who’ve faced a similar predicament and can offer answers. Increasingly, that job is falling to AI.

SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and creates a group chat with their AI profiles.

To scale that network on both sides, meaning more users asking questions and more experts supplying knowledge, the startup announced today that it is raising $20 million in funding led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with participation from Greylock Partners.

Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov founded the startup in 2024. Both have experience at large consumer companies. Winters held exec roles at Grubhub, Pinterest, and Eventbrite, and has advised companies like Airbnb and Canva part time. Antonov was head of engineering at multiple startups, including Pinterest, Lyft, and Whatnot.

The two got connected when Winters was advising Whatnot. ChatGPT was becoming popular around the same time, and they decided to…

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